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Today, 07:39 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Also also, I'm not persuaded by this idea that Black Marsh alone could somehow whup every other military force on the continent, even if the latter...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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Today, 05:41 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)"Everyone and their cat" does not cut it as a citation. Please, please point to the multiple specific in-game sources you are considering your...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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Yesterday, 08:13 AMI haven't studied this, but my gut feeling is that there's a difference in kind between a "field of study" and a "theory". Aether was a theory, which...70 replies | 2534 view(s)
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2024-04-16, 03:53 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)That's what they demanded, but what they actually wanted may be something else. Like, access to the Adamantine Tower. Did the Thalmor ever capture...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-16, 03:36 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)They could never have beaten the Empire's armies unless they had first seduced Elsweyr and Valenwood to their side. And let's not forget the...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-16, 03:11 PMThere is a scientific side to astrology: it's about modelling and predicting the movement of the planets. Yes, I think it's reasonable to call that a...70 replies | 2534 view(s)
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2024-04-15, 04:42 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Ulfric very much does not believe the Empire has what it takes to fight the Dominion. And that belief is, as I've been arguing for what feels like...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-15, 03:41 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Not - per canon, there isn't, but I'm pretty sure Niranye would spy for anyone who asked, and probably is. Oh, they'd look twice all right....608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-14, 05:04 AMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)It's a take that's based firmly on the reality of the game. I've cited incidents and locations, I've quoted Tullius's own words. What, exactly, is...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-13, 07:36 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)What "appearances" are those? The ones where Tullius is so afraid of offending the Thalmor, he daren't even decline an invitation? Or the ones where...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-13, 04:58 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)An empire that had already swallowed the poisoned pill that was the Concordat was not about to "pounce" on a limping gerbil. It was psychologically...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-12, 06:55 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Skyrim (and Hammerfell, and High Rock) did "sacrifice" for Cyrodiil. They sent the flower of their youth to fight and die in the Legion. And they...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-12, 09:18 AMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)I feel like we've thrashed this to death already. They didn't do everything in their power, and that's the whole problem. They may have thought they...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-11, 05:58 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)You're probably right. But I never killed Vivec - I quite liked the guy, actually - and he seemed competent to keep the place ticking over until he...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-11, 02:31 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)I'm pretty sure future canon will say only "there was a civil war in Skyrim, but it didn't matter because $RANDOM_UNFORESEEABLE_BULLS**T happened and...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-11, 08:45 AMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)When bandits wander too close to an Imperial-aligned town, they get attacked by the guards. When the Thalmor do it, they don't. The business in...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-11, 08:30 AMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Not in "the same spot" exactly, no, but there are places where the spawn points are close enough that you can get two encounters within sight of one...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-11, 08:16 AMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)It's not easy to test this because random encounters are - random, but that's not my experience. Unless you're actually in the imperial legion, those...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-10, 08:27 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Influence != Authority. The Dominion has (because it claims it and, damningly, the self-styled Empire does not dispute that claim) authority over...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-10, 07:04 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)They did pay tribute, they absolutely do follow whatever laws the Thalmor trouble to demand of them, and when the Dominion demanded the right to send...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-10, 04:27 AMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)So, what I'm missing here is the logic by which Skyrim, High Rock and Hammerfell should still be considered to be beholden to Cyrodiil. They lost....608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-09, 05:16 PMIs there any such thing as a "correct" theory? The only thing we can test is whether the theory is "good enough" for whatever practical test we can...70 replies | 2534 view(s)
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2024-04-09, 02:31 AMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)The Empire is scared stiff of the Dominion. In their minds, they got their backside thoroughly whupped last time, and only the concordat saved them...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-08, 02:57 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)In theory that's true, but not necessarily in practice. It depends whether the Dominion currently has the military and fiscal strength and political...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-07, 11:19 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)"Rebuilding the Blades as an anti-Thalmor cadre" is a cool idea, and could have made for a nifty questline, but it would be a lot of work. Too much...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-04, 10:55 PMMakes me wonder... How many times has this happened and not been detected? On the other hand, it's reassuring that it was detected before being...4 replies | 723 view(s)
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2024-04-04, 09:01 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)It's never spelled out exactly when all this drama (the moot, nor Ulfric's subsequent challenge/murder of Torygg) happened. But there's a strong...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-04, 03:03 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)He absolutely could shut Rolff up on day one. Just tell the guards to have a word with him, keep him out of the Grey Quarter at night - job done, at...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-04, 02:49 AMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)The thing about Idgrod - she's (apparently) been there her whole life, she's had plenty of opportunity to win the confidence of her people, but she's...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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2024-04-02, 01:16 AMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)I agree there are strong parallels, but you have to be careful with "parallels", because it invariably turns out that they're not nearly as parallel...608 replies | 15244 view(s)
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